diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index afda65a09..debac2c63 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ This document provides a high-level view of the changes introduced by release.
 === 0.38.11
 
 - Upgrade AsciidoctorJ to 2.2.4 and PlantUML to 1.2022.14
+- Ignore Antora playbooks that are inside of a module, as they are probably examples (#1293)
 
 === 0.38.10
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/search/AsciiDocAntoraPlaybookIndex.java b/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/search/AsciiDocAntoraPlaybookIndex.java
index 3dd63cd2e..24882f08d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/search/AsciiDocAntoraPlaybookIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/search/AsciiDocAntoraPlaybookIndex.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import com.intellij.util.indexing.FileBasedIndex;
 import com.intellij.util.indexing.ID;
 import org.asciidoc.intellij.psi.AsciiDocSearchScope;
+import org.asciidoc.intellij.psi.AsciiDocUtil;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 
@@ -33,7 +34,10 @@ public class AsciiDocAntoraPlaybookIndex {
   public static Collection<VirtualFile> getVirtualFiles(@NotNull Project project) {
     Set<VirtualFile> files = CollectionFactory.createSmallMemoryFootprintSet();
     FileBasedIndex.getInstance().processValues(NAME, PLAYBOOK_KEY, null, (file, value) -> {
-      files.add(file);
+      if (AsciiDocUtil.findAntoraModuleDir(project, file) == null) {
+        // if a playbook is located in an example folder, ignore it
+        files.add(file);
+      }
       return true;
     }, new AsciiDocSearchScope(project), null);
     return files;